New Faculty Hires in 2023 |
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The University of Baltimore School of Law welcomed six new faculty members this year. Three are tenure-track professors, and three are clinical teaching fellows. |
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Anne-Marie Carstens is an associate professor of law, teaching Property, Introduction to Lawyering Skills, Civil Procedure, and international and cultural heritage law courses. She previously taught Property, Civil Procedure, Copyright, Lawyering, and other IP and cultural heritage courses at Georgetown Law and the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, as well as in London-based international law programs for Georgetown Law-University College London and for the University of Tulsa Law School.
Her research and scholarship focus primarily on legal issues at the intersections of cultural heritage, international law, and property law. She was appointed as an expert advisor on cultural property issues at the U.S. Department of State, chaired the Cultural Heritage and the Arts Interest Group of the American Society of International Law, and co-chaired the former Art & Cultural Heritage certificate program offered by Georgetown Law Executive Education.
After law school, Carstens clerked for Judge Diana Gribbon Motz on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and practiced litigation in Washington and in London at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. She received her J.D. cum laude from Georgetown Law, where she served as Executive Articles Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. While completing her DPhil in Law (research doctorate in Public International Law), she was competitively selected by the Oxford Law Faculty for a research residency at Yale Law School and awarded a grant for summer study at the Hague Academy of International Law.
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Ioanna Tourkochoriti is an associate professor of law, teaching Human Rights Law, Comparative Law. She is a leading scholar on comparative law, jurisprudence and human rights. She has published numerous articles on comparative constitutional law, freedom of expression and anti-discrimination law with leading journals all around the world.
Her well-received book, Freedom of Speech: The Revolutionary Roots of American and French Legal Thought, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. She is co-organizer of the International Research Collaborative on “Religion and Women's Rights: Global Perspectives” and international research networks on hate speech and anti-discrimination law.
She is currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook on Hate Speech, the Oxford Handbook on Anti-Discrimination Law and Religion, a volume on comparative legal history for Cambridge University Press, a volume on the comparative enforcement of international law for Edward Elgar, and a volume on critiquing human rights for Edward Elgar.
Tourkochoriti was formerly Lecturer above the Bar at the University of Galway School of Law. For eight years she held research and faculty appointments at Harvard University. She was a Wertheim Fellow with the Labor and Work Life Program at Harvard Law School and a Lecturer on Law and Social Studies at the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University. She has delivered guest seminars and lectures at numerous universities all around the world.
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Andrew Ziaja is an assistant professor of law, teaching Labor Law, Employment Law, Contracts and Administrative Law. He joined the faculty after a career in civil litigation as a labor lawyer and public servant. While serving with the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C., he led efforts by the Agency in relation to litigation before the United States Supreme Court, which included engagement with the Office of the Solicitor General to prepare the government’s position for briefing and oral argument.
He has also served as lead counsel in trial and appellate litigation on behalf of government and private litigants. Ziaja has delivered oral argument before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Third and Ninth Circuits, as well as the California Courts of Appeal. He has further appeared in many other federal and state matters before arbitrators, administrative tribunals, the California Supreme Court, the Oregon Supreme Court, and United States District Courts throughout the country.
Ziaja earned a law degree from the University of California College of Law, San Francisco, where he was Managing Editor of the University of California Law Constitutional Quarterly. He also holds an MPA, magna cum laude, from the Paris Institute of Political Studies, known as Sciences Po, and a B.A., with honors in history and class distinction, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also attended the University of California, Berkeley on a graduate fellowship in history.
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New Clinical Teaching Fellows |
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Patrick Grubel is a clinical teaching fellow in the Saul Ewing Civil Advocacy Clinic, in which student-attorneys represent low-income individuals and community groups in a broad range of civil litigation and law reform projects.
Before joining the faculty, Grubel had a varied career litigating federal constitutional and civil rights cases. He was a staff attorney at the Council on American-Islamic Relations Legal Defense Fund; an associate at an education law firm in Texas; and a litigation fellow at Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
He also clerked for Justice Debra H. Lehrmann of the Supreme Court of Texas. Grubel earned his B.A. at Rutgers University and his J.D. at Harvard Law School.
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She previously worked at the Capital Area Immigrants Rights (CAIR) Coalition, where she was first an Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow, and then a senior attorney on the Maryland Universal Representation team. She represented Marylanders who were detained by ICE and facing removal proceedings before immigration courts in multiple cities.
Johanson earned her J.D. from the University of California, Irvine, School of Law; her M.Sc. in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford, Kellogg College; and her B.A. in International Affairs from the George Washington University.
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Jonathan Kerr is a clinical teaching fellow in the Criminal Defense and Advocacy Clinic. Prior to joining the faculty, he was an assistant public defender in the Maryland Office of the Public Defender from 2013 to 2022. He represented indigent clients at trial in both misdemeanor and felony cases, obtaining numerous acquittals on charges ranging from traffic offenses in District Court to first-degree murder at jury trials in Baltimore City Circuit Court. Kerr also has experience practicing in the fields of labor and employment law and civil litigation in New York state.
He was educated in the United Kingdom and graduated with an LL.B. in Law with Politics from Queen’s University of Belfast, going on to qualify and practice as a barrister specializing in criminal law. He has also earned an LL.M. in Human Rights Law from the University of Nottingham, and he served as an intern in the chambers of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
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University of Baltimore School of Law
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